SHOE’S ON THE OTHER FOOT NOW

AUSTRALIA’S swimming team must be short of mirrors. The rest of the country, too, given Shayna Jack has tested positive for drugs.

See, this news come just after one of those famous explosions of Aussie Aussie Aussie wah wah wah — that unpleasant mix of xenophobia and self-pity.

The media last week was outraged that Chinese “drug cheat” Sun Yang was winning gold after gold at the World Swimming Championships.

Australia’s Mack Horton, silver behind Sun, refused to shake hands with him or share the medals podium. Britain’s Duncan Scott also snubbed Sun on the podium.

I didn’t understand the mass hatred aimed at Sun, despite his reputation as an arrogant boor.

Yes, he’d been banned for three months in 2014 for taking a stimulant for a heart condition he said he had — a drug that had only just been added to the banned list.

But hadn’t Australians forgiven our own Shane Warne, cricket hero, for taking a banned diuretic — accidentally, he said?

The difference, apparently, was that Sun’s security guard had last year also smashed vials of blood when Sun was tested, preventing them from being checked for drugs. Cheat!

But an International Swimming Federation inquiry had cleared Sun, saying he was right to protest that the testers had not been properly accredited, had acted improperly and were filming him without his permission.

That decision is under appeal, but don’t Australians believe in innocent until proven guilty?

But that didn’t stop an orgy of Australian rage against him, with even swimming legend Dawn Fraser branding Sun a “drug cheat” and “disgusting”.

Yet Australians at the very same time calmly accepted the news that our Test squad for the first Ashes included all three cricketers who’d served bans for cheating — Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft.

But our double standards were completely exposed on Saturday when the news finally leaked that Australia’s Shayna Jack hadn’t actually quit the world championships for the “personal reasons” she’d said, but because she’d failed a drug test.

Swimming Australia had kept that news from us while Australian athletes and journalists had pilloried Sun. Hypocrisy unbound.

Jack insists she did not deliberately take performanceenhancing drugs, and more checks will be done. Let’s hope she’s cleared.

But let’s also hope that the next time we point a finger, we notice the four pointing back at us.